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[Overkill]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#50

Posted: 1/15/11 at 12:14pm

Did you not see Carol Burnett do it in Putting it Together? I'm pretty sure she was over 50 at that point.

[ljay889]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#51

Posted: 1/15/11 at 12:30pm

But Burnett didn't play Amy, she just sang the song.

[Overkill]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#52

Posted: 1/15/11 at 12:34pm

I don't really see why age would matter that much. Joanne doesn't have to be the only older friend. And Marin Mazzie doesn't look old.

[ljay889]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#53

Posted: 1/15/11 at 1:14pm

I just don't see Marin as Amy at all. Ripley is more Amy, and she has played the role already.
Marin seems like a Sarah to me. Though that role would be a waste of her singing talents.

[Overkill]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#54

Posted: 1/15/11 at 1:17pm

I agree with you there. I don't see her as Amy, I just didn't understand why her age was such an issu, that's all.

I think Ripley would be a fabulous Amy!

[AC126748]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#55

Posted: 1/15/11 at 1:19pm

Bobby is supposed to be 35-40 and commitment-phobic, surrounded by couples. Having an Amy who is 50, marrying for the first time, and almost backing out of it completely goes against one of the central arcs of the story. Mazzie is old enough to play Joanne convincingly.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[BroadwayBound115]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#56

Posted: 1/16/11 at 12:03pm

I would LOVE to hear Jason Danieley sing Sorry-Grateful

[philcrosby]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#57

Posted: 1/16/11 at 12:04pm

Stritch was in her mid-40s originating Joanne. The casting in that role (as in many over the years) has crept up and up in age as our expectations of what reads as "old" has changed. LuPone is 61 or 62, and can pull off the "cougar" aspect fine. My problem with her is that she is blowsy and coarse as a performer, and Joanne (if played convincingly) comes from money and class. LuPone is also a careless and sometimes lazy singer, unless directed with an extremely strong hand.
Updated On: 1/16/11 at 12:04 PM

[broadwaybabytn]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#58

Posted: 1/16/11 at 1:13pm

@philcrosby, I think Price has the strong guiding hand needed to make LuPone do her best work.

[broadwaybabytn]

LuPone doing Company with the NY Phil#59

Posted: 1/16/11 at 1:14pm

@philcrosby, I think Price has the strong guiding hand needed to make LuPone do her best work.